Word: hackes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps, despite Schwarzenegger's self-assuredness, it was inevitable that the book would be so poor. Schwarzenegger's talents lie exclusively in pumping iron and charming people; his hack ghostwriter, Douglas Kent Hall, has written only on flabby subjects such as Van People and Rodeo. When Schwarzenegger says it will be a bestseller, "just like the bible," his credibility and smile wear a little thin...
Then again, everything about the show feels authentic, including the supporting cast. Robert Walden, as an over-zealous but talented investigative reporter, and Peter Hobbs, as a police-beat hack, avoid most of the acting clichés usually found in Front Page-style entertainments. Nancy Marchand plays the paper's imperious, widowed publisher as a cross between the Washington Post's Katharine Graham and Dorothy Schiff, the former owner of the New York Post. If Marchand and Asner keep up their game of verbal Ping Pong, they could become TV's Hepburn and Tracy...
...affidavit filed in the case states that a bloody hack saw was found at the Kearney-Hill apartment in Redondo Beach. The apartment also yielded hair samples and bloodstains that match those of the victim LaMay, whose body -according to the affidavit-was discovered in a plastic bag taken from the Hughes Aircraft...
...priests frowned on playing squash. So Paco and the rich kid had at least one bond between them, which was that neither of them knew how to play squash but could recite a mean Hail Mary, and the other people were just the other way around. Paco couldn't hack it, because he knew all along that the only reason these other people tolerated the rich kid was that his father built tanks. Paco's father didn't build tanks, and Paco wasn't sure he liked the idea of staking his future at Ropes and Gray on anything...
...next sessions with Frost he'll talk about his foreign policy triumphs, and try to establish his legacy, his attempt, as he put it, "to build a generation of peace." But Nixon was a hack, not a statesman. He was the ultimate mediocrity, the ad account executive, the ward heeler raised to high office. The only emotion that the interview generates is not pity--Nixon is too warped and amoral for that--but hatred. Let him go east, like Cain, into the land of Nod. In the end, perhaps the best thing that can be said of the interviews...